For I thought, if it comes on an Indian skulking about yonder, I may be able to learn something from its movements.
He scanned the fringe of the firelight for the skulking shapes, which had become so dreadfully familiar, but he could see none--not a single prowling form anywhere.
Meanwhile Dick emptied his rifle at the brow of the ravine, taking a chance on hitting whoever was skulking there with such deadly intent.
As the night wore away, Dick and Sandy risked shot after shot at the wolves, and now and again they dropped a skulking shadow.
Despite his most intense desire to drive himself into other and higher channels, he found himself skulking and spying and conniving with but one low end in view.
The sentries were ordered to watch the horizon with the greatest care for fear the skulking Indians might ambush the troops.
Timber wolves, too, were always skulking around and following the men, but I never knew them to hurt anyone.
The horrid fact being completed, they kept on their course near the mountains, where they lay skulking four or five days, rejoicing at the plunder and store they had got.
They in war decline open engagements--bush-fighting or skulkingis their discipline.
Here are others skulking in secret, many making a market of the times, and numbers who are changing to Whig or Tory with the circumstances of every day.
This precaution was the more necessary, as the abrupt banks of the river, with the dense bushes which grew along them, was a safe lurking place for any Indians who might be skulking about the country.
I will only add, that conscious innocence is not found skulking in dark forests, and obscure hiding places.
Think you that, for so cold a feeling as friendship and gratitude, I would rescue this skulking hound from the lash of his master, which he so richly deserves, or from the juster doom of the craven cur, the rope and gallows.
I fired all I had left of it last night at a man whom I saw skulking about the road after nightfall.
I had been for some days skulking from covert to covert, under all the terrors of a jail; as some ill-advised people had uncoupled the merciless pack of the law at my heels.
When this letter was written the poet was skulking from place to place: the merciless pack of the law had been uncoupled at his heels.
The snapping of a twig recalled his scattered senses, however, and his sudden movement frightened a gaunt wolf which had crept up almost to the lifeless horse, and now went skulking away.
A skulking fellow of about thirty years, none the handsomer for having lost nearly all his front teeth, came to help put up their horse when the boys had made their wants known inside the tavern.
Battalion, Second Division, of an officer and eleven men of the German Army, whom he stalked as they lay skulking in a trench dug-out not far from his observation post, and terrorized into submission by the threat of throwing a bomb at them.
He's such a skulking cowardly figure just now that perhaps it wouldn't be well to try him.
They waited a moment or two longer, but Frank Sheldon's eyes detected no other skulking figure and he gave the word to move.
Indeed, I layskulking out upon that sea as if I was some common thief broken loose from jail.
Scarcely is it finished before the skulking cowbird watches her chance to lay an egg in it that she may not be bothered with the care of her own baby.
He had too little wit left to note that the side aisles and transepts held scores of skulking fugitive soldiers, and that others of a like kidney were hiding in the shrine chapels about him.
The men are all this time either loitering about the tents or skulking down the lanes spotting out their game for the night, with their lurcher dogs at their heels.
They told me that during the day the census was taken they made it a point to always be upon the move, and skulking about in the dark.
To avoid our darts they must be for ever ducking and skulking beneath their shields; but we will rain blows upon them in their blindness; we will leap upon them and lay them low.
Where you appear likely to go again, Nicholas; but what are you skulking about here for?
Besides, even if we were not discovered, I could see no way of laying hold of the tail of the conspiracy by floundering through a measureless forest at night, and finally skulking round the castle like a homeless cat.
I see some oneskulking along under the walls that looks like him.
His eyes looked wilder than usual, and his face older and more worn, and he looked round him with a kind of clandestine skulking instinct as he came out of the shadow into the light.
It was neither bear, deer, nor wildcat that Ray saw skulking along the ridge, but the half-breed.
Almost could Old Cy see him watching them from behind trees, skulking along when their backs were turned, a low, contemptible thief.
When the bordering swamp was reached, the trail turned in a westerly direction, skirting thus for half a mile, and here, also, evidences of skulking along were visible.
